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By comparison.

I would echo this sentiment regarding the thread itself...

So, if I read you correctly, you're claiming that properties are not in any way separate from things. I'm inclined to agree with that. Different, but ...

The same thing as always... Are we naming something that exists in it's entirety prior to our name? If so, what supportive argument are we using to sa...

Right. And that matters here because?

Relationships with others amounts to much more than to whom one makes charitable donations. The church claims to help those in need. Actually, the chu...

It's a bit misleading to say that it does not focus upon relationships with others... Joel Osteen focuses upon that all the time.

It lends itself well to televangelism... It promises hope to those without. More and more are without hope but with television. Those two things could...

A quick perusal through an earlier thread of mine found the above. I want to offer a current reply. Emotions are correlational content. The OP mention...

I'm going to look a bit closer at your site... the belief icon in particular... Cheers!

Let me see if I can clarify... Your answer was fine. Getting thought and belief right, is not equivalent to having true thought and belief, except if ...

Well put. Thomas Paine. One of my all time favorites when it somes to consifering when to decide that the government has made life worse than it would...

Confusing imagination with reality.

Get a room.

Yeah. I know. Many philosophers posit impossible scenarios. Brains in vats are dead. There is never going to be a time where I sit and count people as...

Powerful first impression(linking your site). I wonder, since it is evident that you take all this quite seriously... How important is it, by your lig...

I would not know what philosophy would even look like if it wasn't continually being applied to everyday real life events. What else could test it?

Read Benkei's last post.

So what? Irrelevant. Trump's AG(or was it the FBI director?) claimed that the Mueller report exonerated Trump of collusion. Those claims were made wel...

Here's a thought.... It is an actual real life issue, and a very contentious one at that, regarding whether or not a sitting president can be indicted...

Gibberish. The only people I see still using the term are those who keep on saying that Trump is not guilty of it. That term is one of endearment for ...

"Property" is just a name.

Very well put fdrake. Taking account of having the experience is itself it's own experience. Thinking intently about all the different aspects of one'...

Any way you could restate that without making unverifiable charges? I'd be very surprised if Schiff used the term "collusion".

Austin's How To Do Things With Words maybe? I have a copy... I've never thought about an utterance of ought in terms of direction of fit. Promises... ...

There was Russian interference. Trump's close relatives worked with some of those agents. Trump hired a known Ukrainian agent(Manafort). The Mueller r...

You've misunderstood. Different folk have different ideas of what's good. So what?

Mahalo. Is that Austin or Searle, or someone else? It's from the Speech Act Theorists, isn't it?

It is indeed exactly right! Someone cannot be convicted of a crime that does not exist. Collusion - in this case - is every bit as inapplicable as jay...

"Collusion" is a red herring. Very well used. Self-perpetuated nonetheless. There is no such crime. He knew - they knew - there would never be any suc...

How does the direction of fit play a part(apply) in "One ought not literally beat oneself up over their failures"?

Are all prescriptive claims moral in kind?

What makes a claim moral in kind?

Reason is better than logic for explanation. Neither is capable of explaining the unknown aside from being unknown - by definition. It's commonly thou...

Do you wanna keep on being Putin's pawn Tell you what he's gonna do-ooo-oo Do you wanna keep on being Putin's pawn Cause there's so much more that he ...

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding... We have a winner!

Philosophy has also given me pause at times. It can be quite disillusioning to realize that some things are not the way you thought they were. It can ...

This seems an appropriate segue to revert back to being a bit more directly connected with the OP. Philosophy helped me tremendously in that I've deve...

A few simple, common sense, defensible, and easily teachable ones... What would happen if everyone acted like that? Be helpful. Do what's good for goo...

I wanted to re-approach this. It's not fait accompli. It's not inevitable. It could be a necessary(unavoidable) foregone logical conclusion, but that ...

Knowing what sorts of things can be true and what makes them so is crucial for mental health.

Words based upon knowledge of all thought and belief, so as to be able to know which aspects of human thought and belief are unique to humans and whic...

Pointing you towards evidence you ask for says nothing else. :wink: Read the Mueller report. Watch the sworn testimony.

Some experience does not involve words. All characterizations thereof do. There are extremely important existential and elemental distinctions between...

What is false? Which statement?

You're asking for something that's already been done. I'm assuming both sanity and sincerity in speech. So, I figure that you asked as a way to sugges...

I know that. You're talking about current events. I'm pointing you towards solid evidence of the exact same thing in past.

Read the Mueller report.

A demonstrably wise, prudent, and admirable politician who has been nearly perfect throughout his time, sometimes when he was the only "nay". Someone ...

:wink: Point taken.